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W. W. MAGVAY & R. SYKES.

STOPPERING OF BOTTLES.

Patented May 15, 1883.

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the screw-thread in the bottle-neck.

UNITED STATES PATENT Grates.

WILLIAM \V. MAGVAY AND RICHARD SYKES, OF OASTLEFORD, COUNTY OF YORK, ENGLAND.

STOPPERING OF BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 277,758, dated May 15, 1883.

Application tiled March 5, 1883. No model.) Patented in England February 22, ten, No. 738; in France August 2t, 1877, No.

119,991; in Belgium August 2-3, 1877, No. 42,884, and in Germany September 13, 1877, No, 785.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, WILLIAM WILsoN MAGVAY and RICHARD SYKns, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Oastleford, in the county of York, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Stoppering of Bottles", of which the following'is a specification. p

The object of this invention is to provide a tight, convenient, cheap, and neat means for stoppering bottles, more particularly those containing aerated liquids. For this purpose we form the inside of the bottle-neck with a screw-thread, and below this we form the neck with a ledge, which serves as a support for an india-rubber or other elastic washer or ring, on the top of which we by preference place a metallic or other hard washer. rule, which may be of glass, metal, wood, or other suitable substance for this purpose, is formed with a screw-thread corresponding with When screwed sufficiently in the neck against the metallic washer it retains and compresses the aforesaid elastic washer, which thus forms a shoulder or seat for a glass or other ball or marble pressed against it by the gas-pressure ot' the liquid or fluid. The marble is dropped into the bottle first, and then the elastic washer "is placed on the ledge, and on the top of this we place the "metallic washer for the cap or ferrule to press against. The cap or ferrule is formed with milled edge or with two holes, in which a key is made to lit for turning it round, as required.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a vertical section through a bottle the neck of which is formed and fitted according to this invention. Fig. 2 is a plan of the stoppering cap or ferrule. Fig. 3 is a section through a bottle with a similar stoppering appliance, and Fig. 4 a plan of the cap or ferrule. Fig. 5 is asection through a bottle-neck with a slightly The cap or i'crdifferent form of cap or ferrule, and Fig. 6 a viewof a bottle-neck with another form of fer- 5 rule.

The bottle-neck A is formed with a screwthread, at the bottom of which there is a ledge or shoulder at a. On this shoulder we place an iudia-rubher or other elastic washer, b,t'ormiug the seating for the marble or other ball which has been previously dropped into the bottle.

0 is the ferrule or cap, which holds the elastic Washer b in place either by directly pressing on it, as shown at Fig. 1, or an interposed me- 5 tallic or other hard washer, (l, as shown at Fig.

3. In the former case the'ferrnle c is shown with two projections at the inner circumference for the purpose 0t affording facility for screwing it up or down, and in the latter with two notches for the same purpose. As shown at Fig. 5, the ferrule c is formed with two holes,

0, for the same purpose, a kcybcing made to fit the holes. In Fig. 6 the ferrule is shown with a milled edge for the purpose of screw- 6 ing it up or down by simply taking hold of it between the lingers; but the form of the terrule may be varied greatlywithout departing from the nature of this invention.

\Ve are aware that it is not new to make a screw-thread in the neck of bottles. (See the. British patents ot' IVestwood, N0. 434 of 1860, and Edwards, No. 1,617 of 1874.) An inner metal lining is also not new, as shown in the specification of I ldwardspatent aforesaid. \Ve 7 are also aware that a screw-neck and metal ferrule have been combined with a washer, as in Walkers British Patent No. 1,797 of 1876, but in VVaIkers arrangement there is no distinct ledge and groove for the elastic ring, the ring 80.

support; the washer and a thinible to screw' down upon the same, the washer is secured in its place, and a good cushion formed for the hall to come against, and the device rendered practically successful.

We claim as our invention a The bottle-neck having an internal screwthread and a recess with a shoulder, in combination with an elastic washer, a tubular ferinle securing the edges of the washer to the sh0ulder,.and a ball-valve below the elastic washer, substantially as specified.

WILLIAM WILSON .MAQVAY.

RICHARD SYKES. Witnesses to the signature of the said William Wilson Macvay:

J. WATT, JOHN DEAN, r

Both 0fl7 Gmceelmreh Street, London. Witnesses to the signature of the said Richard Sykes:

WILLIAM VEVERS, HENRY S. LENTY, Clerks to Messrs. Teale d3" Appleton, Solicitors,

Leeds. 

